Today’s news: Knuckleheads
By Billy DennisMay 16th, 2008
From the Journal Star:
- You know, if I had a bullet wound in the gut, I’d be a tad uncooperative, too.
- Ken Hinton is in rare form. Bull-headed, condescending … come to think of it, that’s not rare for him at all.
- Here’s my big dream: A new board and administrators at District 150. Visualize, visualize, Visualize …
- The Peoria Park District will have to hold a public hearing before it screws around with the old Spanish cannon at Glen Oak Park Lagoon. I suggest people want to seem preserved better pack this hearing when it’s held.
- I say if the pumps CAN’T show a price higher than $3.99, then let them. In fact, let’s make old mechanical gas pumps mandatory.
- The award-winning (snicker) editorial page of Peoria’s one and only newspaper complains about a lack of maintenance on the Kellar Branch. It blames the carriers, not the bull-headed decisions by the rail owners — positions advocated by the this same newspaper — that kept the rail users from being able to USE the rail until very recently. Because, as you know, it makes perfect economic sense to maintain the a rail line you aren’t allowed to use. No doubt other bloggers will further deconstruct the editorial.
- This drunk, anti-social, violent knucklehead could very easily have ended up shot a couple dozen times. Instead his sorry-ass is in jail and faces a long prison term. And two cops get injured bringing him in the hard way. Get well soon, officers. And in case no one else says it: Thank you for your service.
May 17th, 2008 at 12:34 am
Billy, you’re missing the point regarding Pioneer and the lack of maintenance. The maintenance issues are that there are no signs of any work being done on the line for the last ten years, probably. Not just over the last few. You need to actually go out and take a look at it. THEN, come back and give your take on the editorial.
May 17th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Prego,
You can’t be THAT dumb. The Cities have tried to close the Kellar Branch since the early 1990’s, and if abandonment looms, no operating railroad (P&PU, PIRY and CIRY) has an incentive to fix drainage control and erosion problems IF THEY DO NOT AFFECT OPERATIONS.
Fact is, PIRY poured hundreds of thousands of its OWN money into necessary track work and ROW maintenance in 1998-1999, including additional track, restored spur tracks, ballast, replaced crossties, etc.
Since last summer, CIRY, and since last fall, PIRY, have worked to put the line back in service. If the Cities give up their misguided agenda, perhaps the railroads would be willing to help fix the drainage and erosion control problems (assuming they’re really as bad as claimed).